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Usdan Administration Plans Changes to Vendor Policy

I, for one, welcome our new corporate overlords…

Watch out, dude, they’re trying to sell us out to the man!

In brief, the University is trying to change up the way it manages the vendors who visit Usdan. As of now, Frank Marsilli, the Usdan facilities and events manager, directly books the vendors, as he has been doing so for the past sixteen years. This year, the University is planning to hire a third-party company, Kiosk Connections, to manage this program and bring in more vendors beginning after Spring Break. These guys are a pretty big company that, as they put it, connects “corporations and specialty retail vendors”: Mary Kay, Avon, to name a few. Their clients range from AT&T to Pfizer to Lockheed Martin.

In other words, not universities.

Alright, so this sounds pretty shitty. And if you’ve been talking to Malcolm Tent—the goateed guy who’s been selling used records at Wesleyan for seventeen years, bonding with more than a few students in the process—it definitely sounds shitty.  According to Malcolm, with the way the new program will work, he—and presumably the other regular vendors—won’t be able to afford to keep coming. He really appreciates the Wesleyan community and doesn’t want to lose being a part of it.

Malcolm Tent Returns to Wesleyworld

Can’t wait until WESU’s Community Record Fair on October 28? Malcolm Tent, worshipper of all things Devo and former owner of the Trash American Style record store, is bringing the records to Usdan today. Buy some goddamn records:

I, Malcolm Tent, am returning to your benighted campus. I will be loaded with the best new + used underground/ overground RECORDS, DVD’S, CD’S, JEWELRY, and….?  The date is Thursday, October 11. I’ll be at Usdan from approximately noon – 5 pm. Not only will I be selling stuff, but I’ll be buying and trading so bring all of your unwanted records, tapes, cd’s, or whatever!

If you have any special requests let me know and I’ll do my best to hook you up.

Date: Thursday, October 11
Time: 12:00 pm – 5 pm
Place: Usdan, by the staircase
Cost: Yes.

Back Again: Malcolm Tent Brings Vinyl to Usdan

The biannual WESU record fair is still over a month away (April 15, if you’re keeping score), but why wait? Malcolm Tent has been seen round these parts many times before (and even interviewed once or twice), and he’ll be setting up shop again today in downstairs Usdan:

I, Malcolm Tent, am returning to your benighted campus. I will be loaded with the best new + used underground/ overground records, DVDs, and CDs.

The date is Monday, March 5. I’ll be at Usdan from approximately noon – 5 pm.

Not only will I be selling stuff, but I’ll be buying and trading so bring all of your unwanted records, tapes, cd’s, or whatever!

Date: Today, March 5
Time: 12 – 5 pm
Place: Usdan

Vinyl + Jewelry at Wes on Monday

Guess who’s back?

Lucky you! Trash American Style is returning to your benighted campus. We will be loaded with the best new + used underground/ overground records, DVDs, CDs, jewelry, bribabrack, and….?

The date is Monday, October 17 (National Boss Day).

We’ll be at Usdan (by the big staircase) from approximately noon – 5 pm. Not only will I be selling stuff, but I’ll be buying and trading so bring all of your unwanted records, tapes, CDs, or whatever! If you have any special requests let me know and I’ll do my best to hook you up.

Date: National Boss Day (Tomorrow, October 17)
Time: 12 pm – 5 pm
Place: Usdan staircase

Malcolm Tent Rawks Usdan

There’s no better way to wash down a Usdan residency policy protest than with an icy swig of dusty post-punk vinyl. Good thing everyone’s favorite traveling record vendor Malcolm Tent is returning to Wes tomorrow to sell you records and raid my wallet:

Friday, February 18 marks the return of Trash American Style and our full complement of awesome vinyl, CDs, cassettes, jewelry, clothing, and whatever else I have room for on the table. We’ll be at the Usdan Center, indoors by the staircase where it’s warm and dry. We expect to be fully awake and operational at noon, and we’ll stick around till 5:00. If you have any requests or special orders, let me know (email: mt(at)trashamericanstyle(dot)us) and I’ll do my utmost to hook you up.

Did you know Malcolm’s table was recently voted the number one most romantic place to buy bootlegged Bauhaus cassettes in Middletown? For more information about Malcolm and his least favorite Leonard Cohen records, click here and here.

Malcolm Tent Record Roundup

If you know me, you’ll know that my wallet regularly falls prey to a reasonably compulsive vinyl habit. So when record/CD/DVD vendor Malcolm Tent sets up shop in Usdan every month or so, I can’t resist spending upwards of half an hour flipping through crates, admiring the display of rare and bootleg concert DVDs, and generally shooting the crap with the amiable former record store owner. The guy knows his way around ’70s and ’80s post-punk and indie underground as well as anyone. He’ll spend twenty minutes telling you about his favorite rare Devo single. If you’re curious about a record, he’ll throw it on the turntable and give you a listen.

Here’s a brief roundup of Malcolm’s record-selling experience yesterday, 10/29. Full disclosure: before conducting this interview, I spent $16.50 and walked away with Tom Verlaine’s self-titled LP and Leonard Cohen’s Death of a Ladies’ Man and I’m Your Man.

More Treats From Malcolm Tent

Once again, Madman Tent brings the goods:

I, Malcolm Tent, am returning to your benighted campus. I will be loaded with the best new + used underground/overground records, DVDs, CDs, and . . . ?  Not only will I be selling stuff, but I’ll be buying and trading so bring all of your unwanted records, tapes, CDs, or whatever! If you have any special requests, let me know at mt(at)trashamericanstyle.us and I’ll do my best to hook you up.

  • What: Vinyl/CDs/DVDs for sale.
  • Where: Usdan
  • When: Tomorrow, October 29, noon – 5:00 PM

Mr. Tent Goes To Middletown

Beloved former record store owner and post-punk enthusiast Malcolm Tent will once again be making downstairs Usdan his own personal vinyl playpen. He owned a Danbury record store for 21 years and has been coming to Wes since ’98, so he knows his shit. Ask him what his favorite Devo album is, if you dare:

Lucky you! I, Malcolm Tent, am returning to your benighted campus. I will be loaded with the best new + used underground/overground records, CDs, DVDs, jewelry, posters, patches, pins, and….? The date is Wednesday, September 15. I’ll be at Usdan (by the staircase) from approximately noon- 5 PM

Not only will I be selling stuff, but I’ll be buying and trading so bring all of your unwanted records, tapes, CDs, or whatever!

  • What: Vinyl!
  • Date: Today
  • Time: 12:00 – 5:00 PM
  • Where: Usdan

Malcolm Tent! Vinyl! Usdan! Monday!

Everyone’s favorite vinyl (and CD, and DVD bootleg) vendor brings his stash back to Usdan on Monday:

Spring is here! So is the vinyl for one last time this semester. As always, I have plenty of new stuff for y’all to look at. And I’m taking requests, so if you want a particular slab o’ wax or something on CD, let me know and I’ll do my best to accommodate. I’ll be at Usdan by the staircase from noon to 5 PM. Come on down!

  • What: Vinyl/CD Sale
  • Place: Usdan
  • Date: Monday, April 5
  • Time: Noon – 5 PM

Email requests to mt(at)wnhu(dot)net.